At a meeting of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board held in Jaipur on March 23, the silence of Prime Minster Narendra Modi on the controversial issues like 'ghar wapasi' related to religious hardliners was resented.

It was articulated
that Hindu hardliners were trying to polarise the society on
religious lines by spreading anti-Muslim feelings and trying to push
country toward a fascist state.

The meeting also criticised Rajasthan
government's recent decision to make Surya Namaskar compulsory in all
schools both government and private schools. It was demanded that the
controversial order must be withdrawn since Islam did not permit for
such practice and was an encroachment on religious freedom of the
Muslims.

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Also, it was said
that any amendment to the Muslim personal law will be opposed since
it would be detrimental to very essence of Muslim religion.

According to Abdul Rahim Qureshi, the General Secretary, All India
Muslim Personal Law Board, the government should concentrate on
internal stability and peace for development instead of taking
decisions which affects religious freedom of the Muslims. The Muslim
religious leader has termed the move of compulsory Surya Namaskar as
un-Islamic by equating it with idol-worship prohibited in Islam.

It is being felt by
the Muslim opinion leaders that the present government was trying to
'saffronise' both schools and the society.